Wow! Amy and I had a great night last night. We got to see quite a few of the cast members and even some of the new Volturi! (SO COOL!)

First stop was Burrard street where we saw Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria) out and about with her little sister. So cute! There were some rude paps/videographers who didn’t stop filming her when she asked them not to take video. Not impressed! Rachelle was showing her little sister around Vancouver and she looked gorgeous! That’s really cool of her to take her little sis around. She wore the coolest sandals… winding gray suede strips of fabric flats with silver studs. Also loved her torn light blue jeans, black leather jacket, and scarf.

I managed to get a picture with her! She is so nice! Doesn’t her hair look gorgeous? Also digging the white leather hobo bag and metal with turquoise necklace.

Here’s Dakota Fanning leaving in a cab with Rachelle and her little sis. Dakota is going to be great as Jane! Our first Volturi sighting!

Please excuse the Twilight deviation… guess who else I got to see? KEVIN BIEKSA! Vancouver Canucks player with his son. They were having a Canucks convention at a nearby hotel so I also got to stand one foot from Roberto Luongo, Alex Edler, and Shane O’ Brien! No pics but it was STILL AMAZING! Go Canucks Go!

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After dinner (at Banana Leaf… Mmmmm!)… we headed back downtown later that night to Blue Water Cafe in Yaletown (one of my favourite restaurants, highly recommend it… great seafood). We had missed them arriving and Mandy got a photo with Rob. Be sure to check out her pic. Reports of them leaving the restaurant on Twitter were 100% false.

There was an all-cast New Moon Wrap Party and Eclipse Kick-Off Party happening at Blue Water. All the cast members were partying in a private room at the restaurant. David Slade was there to kick things off, Stephenie Meyer also, as well as Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria), Rob Pattinson (Edward), Kristen Stewart (Bella), Taylor Lautner (Jacob), Ashley Greene (Alice), Michael Sheen (Aro), Jamie Bower (Caius), Charlie Bewley (Demetri), Dakota Fanning (Jane), Cameron Bright (Alec) and I’m pretty sure I saw Melissa Rosenberg (screenwriter) there.

I saw a couple cast members holding thick manuscripts, including Rob, so I’m PRETTY sure they were possibly giving out Eclipse scripts (with David Slade, Stephenie and Melissa doesn’t it seem possible?). How cool is that?

David Slade was actually really cool to fans, and gave the peace sign and thumbs up sign a few times… he actually apologized for what he said about Twilight. Didn’t expect that at all! Right on David! We’ll have you as the Director for Eclipse after all He was looking very Director-ly in a black zip up turtleneck.

Amy managed to get a photo with Stephenie Meyer. Only photo of the night! Stephenie was absolutely lovely and signed some books for another fan. She was really sweet and was worried about looking tired after the long night, but I’m sure you’ll agree she looks amazing. Stephenie had a bright blood red purse that was totally Twilight appropriate.

We also saw Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen, and Jamie Bower leaving into a cab. They left quite early actually. Michael was wearing a grey cargo jacket with a plaid shirt underneath. Jamie had a cute poorboy cap on, blue jeans, and a blue military-ish jacket. He had this HUGE stiff burgundy messenger bag. Wonder what he had in there… I wonder why so many of the cast members had messenger bags with them at a restaurant… HMMMM…. maybe more evidence for scripts?

Also saw BC boy hottie Cameron Bright… he’s going to be awesome as Volturi Alec. He is seriously cute. Who doesn’t love a Canadian boy?

Cameron was laughing and smiling a lot and seemed super cheerful. Sporting a backwards red baseball cab and a graphic tee.

Rob spent a LOT of time outside on the patio with Kristen. Charlie Bewley and Ashley Greene would join them from time to time, but they surprisingly spent a lot of time sitting very close together in the corner of the patio smoking for most of the night. This is not some “gossip site” making it up… I saw it with my own eyes. Didn’t get many photos of Rob unfortunately, but here he is standing tall with a blue plaid shirt, black pants and black shoes.

I also saw Ashley Greene and Charlie Bewley at the bar doing shots. They were there for quite some time. Go Ashley! Looked like she could keep up her drinks with Charlie just fine.

Here’s Rachelle leaving the bar… most of the main cast members left the bar at the same time and hopped into 2 cabs and one limo.

Guess who was in the limo together? Kristen and Rob. Still not sure anything is going on romantically there but they do seem like very close friends. Check out the huge manuscript in Rob’s pocket. Gotta be a script, right?

Hope you guys enjoyed the pics! We had such a good time and nice to see our fellow fans again

Cast members, please let me know if you would like your photo/video to be removed and I will happily oblige!

Sadly did not get good quality photos tonight at the Twilight set, but it was an amazing experience. I got lucky and managed to get a great video which captures the feel of the scene, PLUS you can hear Kristen saying some of her lines! Thanks to cast and crew for being so cool!

Amy and I unfortunately got down to the set super late tonight because I had to play my (first ever) ice hockey scrimmage! I was disastrous despite all my (not-frequent-enough) practicing, but let’s leave that for another time

The set took place behind the theatre where they were filming yesterday on a long strip of road under the skytrain rails. They set up a “One-Eyed Pete” sign for the bar. Neat!

Because we got there so late, we missed all of Rob’s scenes. This is how his scenes were filmed, and how they are going to incorporate more of him into the movie than the book: In this scene in the movie, Bella leaves the theatre with Jessica (the first time she goes to the theatre, not the second time when she goes with Mike and Jacob)… and encounters a motorcycle gang. She decides to go on a joyride with one of the gang members to try to upset Edward into appearing in her head again. Only in this particular movie scene, they actually filmed Rob Pattinson standing right beside Kristen Stewart telling her not to go, with Kristen standing and talking to the gang member beside his bike. (I’m sure they’ll make him an apparition in post-production editing)

So that’s my best guess at the Bella motorcycle mystery based on what I saw on set. This scene is not like New Moon… in the book, her and Jessica see the gang members sitting in a pub through the window. There was never any motorcycle scenes. The ones ones in the book are with Taylor Lautner on dirtbikes and he wasn’t there. (He was filming the scenes where he jumped from Bella’s window at the Swan house set tonight) What do you think? Why is Kristen on a motorcycle when it’s not in the books?

So check out this video. SO COOL! I am so stoked to actually see this in person. I definitely CANNOT wait for the movie to come out. The motorcycle scene was shot 3 different ways: 1 with Kristen riding on the motorcycle with the gang member… shot from the front. One shot from the side, and one shot with the bike hooked up to a truck so that they could shoot close-up head-on shots. You can see this in the video.

Listen carefully — you can hear the director often yelling “ROLLING!”… “CUT”.. “3..2..1.. ACTION!” and the best part… near the end of the video clip, you can hear Kristen saying some of Bella’s lines… “Stop! STOP!” when the motorcycle gets going fast. Aaaaaaah! My guess is that they cut to the scene of Rob asking her to stop before she yells “Stop!” when they edit it all together.

And let me just say this — Kristen Stewart is one HECK of a cool chica. She did ALL her stunts tonight, at least the ones that I saw. Props for braving it out in the cold Vancouver night on a motorcycle all evening. Major Kudos, Kristen!

Here’s some more pics from the set…

Kristen walking with the gang member (not rolling)… Anyone recognize him? Or is he a stunt person as well as an actor?

Seriously cool camera rig… wish I had that

One of the motorcycles from the set! SO COOL!

Water truck spraying everything down to look wet…

And hmmmmm… Rob? Or Not Rob? Your guess is as good as mine!

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What a fun night! Hope you enjoyed the pics and the videos. Time to hit the sack for me, I’m exhausted. I may sleep for days OK that’s not true, I’ll be up for the Canucks Round 2 Game 2 in less than 12 hours. GO CANUCKS GO!